Preface
Introduction
Christine Pawley
Part 1: Methods and Evidence
Main Street Public Library: Community Spaces and Reading Places in the Rural Heartland
Wayne A. Wiegand
Reading Library Records: Constructing and Using the "What Middletown Read Database"
Frank Felsenstein, John Straw, Katharine Leigh, and James J. Connolly
"Story Develops Badly Could Not Finish": Member Book Reviews at the Boston Athenaeum in the 1920s
Ross Harvey
"A Search for Better Ways into the Future": The Library of Congress and Its Users in the Interwar Period
Jane Aikin
Part 2: Public Libraries, Readers, and Localities
Going to "America": Italian Neighborhoods and the Newark Free Public Library, 1900–1920
Ellen M. Pozzi
"A Liberal and Dignified Approach": The John Toman Branch of the Chicago Public Library and the Making of Americans, 1927–1940
Joyce M. Latham
Counter Culture: The World as Viewed from Inside the Indianapolis Public Library, 1944–1956
Jean Preer
Part 3: Intellectual Freedom
Censorship in the Heartland: Eastern Iowa Libraries during World War I
Julia Skinner
Obscenity in Iowa: Locating the Library in the Non-Library Censorship of the 1950s
Joan Bessman Taylor
"Is Your Library Family Friendly?" Family Friendly Libraries and the Pro-Family Movement
Loretta M. Gaffney
The Challengers of West Bend: An Institutional Approach
Emily Knox
Part 4: Librarians and the Alternative Press
Meta-Radicalism: The Alternative Press by and for Activist Librarians
Alycia Sellie
From the Underground to the Stacks and Beyond: Girl Zines, Zine Librarians, and the Importance of Social and Textual Circulation
Janice A. Radway
Contributors